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Sylvan or Sylvans (from the Latin silva: "forest, woods") can have one of the following meanings:

A countryside scene

The term "A Sylvan Scene" is used to describe a beautiful and idealised scene in the countryside.

Historical reference: John Milton used these words in Paradise Lost (1667) to describe “A Steep Wilderness”: “Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theater Of stateliest view.”

Current reference: Collins dictionary: Sylvan describes an association with woods and trees.

Places named Sylvan

USA

• Sylvan, Illinois, a former settlement
• Sylvan, Wisconsin, a town
  • Sylvan (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated area in the town
• Sylvan Township (disambiguation)
• Sylvan Lake (disambiguation)
• Sylvan Pass (Wyoming), a mountain pass in Yellowstone National Park
• Sylvan-Highlands, Portland, Oregon, a neighborhood of Portland, Oregon
  • West Haven-Sylvan, Oregon, a neighboring unincorporated area
• Sylvan Beach, New York
• Penn's Sylvania (Penn's Woods), the Province of Pennsylvania which was the kernel of the later state

Canada

• Sylvan Lake (Alberta)
• Sylvan, a community in the municipality of North Middlesex, Ontario

Arts and entertainment

• Sylvan (band), a German progressive rock band
• Sylvan Esso, an American indie pop band
• Sylvan (TV series), a Spanish animated series created by Antoni D'ocon
• Sylvan Campaign, a faction in the video game Heroes of Might and Magic V

Names

• Sylvan (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname
• Sylvan Debating Club, a free speech society in London
• Sylvan, a Latin adjective meaning of or from the woodland
• Sylvan Learning, a remedial and enrichment tutoring company
• Sylvans S.C., a football club based on the Channel Island of Guernsey
• another name for 2-methyl furan, a flammable liquid

See also

• 519 Sylvania, asteroid
• Silvan (disambiguation)
• Silvania (disambiguation)
• Silvanus (disambiguation)
• Silvanus (mythology), Roman deity from whom the adjective sylvan derives
• Sylvain (disambiguation)
• Sylvania (disambiguation)

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